Moving to North Wales

daivid

MoneySeeker1 said:

There are more properties for sale than ever appear on RightMove and the like

This is very true, some are sold before even being put up for sale. My sister bought her house (in rural Wales so it happens) by approaching the owners to see if they wanted to sell. It had been the family home and the sons hadn't done anything with it since the parents passed. Having seen it was clearly unoccupied she put a letter through the door. The sale took over a year to go through though due to various wranglings common to countryside properties.

Vegastare

78 said:

Near Caernarfon. We have been told Trefriw is a good place if looking to live in a village?

OP Trefriw is in Conwy and Caernarfon is in Gwynedd - with a few mountains in between - the village has views out over valley and river....nice but can see flooding on lower ground it is near to Llandudno which has the main railway and A55.  As for welsh speaking much more in Caernafon area.  Depends what you want really.   If it was me I would visit to see both areas and rent for a few months.
As a welsh friend said to me when I announced I wanted to move to Anglesey - yep and I can just see you there in January and laughed.  It's lovely part of the world on a lovely day.

MoneySeeker1

LOL at the winter weather here.

Imo one develops mixed feelings about it over time. I still want the weather I'm used to (less rain/warmer/less wind) and do chafe at the bit sometimes when I've decided to go out and the weather is too bad to do so. Can't see me ever getting to the point of "Oh the weather is bad - never mind - I'll go out anyway" if I'm on foot. Still very much in the camp of "Will only go out if the weather is good enough to go out".

There comes a certain "Well at least I can see THIS wildness/unmanageableness - ie that the weather is demonstrating" whereas people, on the other hand, can look placid and then you find that, on the quiet, they've been up to all sorts they shouldnt and it has affected oneself. The weather is an "open" form of wildness and not a "hidden" form of it - and one can derive "something" from watching that weather wildness manifesting itself in rain and wind, whilst waiting for it to get back to normal and knowing it won't inflict long-term damage and you do that thing called "cwtching up". Though I do still worry about whether my rooftiles will cop it - as the wind is so wild here.